Cinema Is Anti-Spiritual: Interview with ‘First Reformed’ Director Paul Schrader
First Reformed may explore the edges of faith but director Paul Schrader believes that what moves us in cinema is no mystery: it's simply "action and empathy".
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In ‘First Reformed’, a Suffering Minister Watches the World Burn
In Paul Schrader's stark story of a spiritual apocalypse, Ethan Hawke's minister finds more to believe in an eco-activist's radicalism than his own pulpit.
Bridging the Ontological Gap: The Appeal to Emotion in the BBC’s ‘Blue Planet II’
To get people to care about the planet they must feel a connection to it. In this, the BBC Blue Planet series succeeds.
‘Radio Free Vermont’ Showcases the Political Power of Ordinary People
Bill McKibben's novel asks readers to value resistance movements that embrace humor, creativity, and civility while inspiring activism as part of our everyday lives.
‘Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays’ Attempts to Escape the Progress Trap
Recovering the sacred for a secular mindset, Paul Kingsnorth restores the awe and the caution of the numinous in ”Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist’.
Soylent: Ingesting the Future
An exploration of lifestyle branding for the coming environmental apocalypse.
Trembling in the Web of ‘Robinson in Ruins’
Robinson in Ruins is a world of grass verges on the edges of motorways, the margins of towns, and the unsettled and unsettling spaces in semi-derelict conditions.
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Swamp Thing, Ecology and the (Sometimes Slimy) Nature of Being
Swamp Thing challenges readers to question how our understanding of our existence is, in part, defined by how we see our relationship to the natural, non-human world.